>
>>> Tried to install 8.2, configuration passed,
>>> but when running "gmake",
>>> got the following error, any clues?
>>> Step1
>>> ========
>>> ./configure --prefix=/local/postgresql --datadir=/postgreSQL_data
>>> --without-docdir --without-readline --disable-spinlocks --without-zlib
>>
>> Please note that --datadir does not do what you seem to think. Remove
>> it, because it's going to cause other problems further on. Also, if you
>> need --disable-spinlocks, your installation is not going to perform very
>> well; did you try without that?
>
> I am not super user for this Linux OS! I can only access my directories.
>
> Specified --datadir=/postgreSQL_data
> because my previous version 8.0.0 DATA was there (which is not used
> anymore)
Also tried
./configure --prefix=/local/postgresql --without-docdir
--without-readline --without-zlib PASS
But gmake failed as well!
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
-Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing zic.o ialloc.o scheck.o localtime.o
-L../../src/port -Wl,-rpath,'/local/postgresql/lib' -lpgport -lcrypt
-ldl -lm -o zic
zic.o(.text+0xb5f): In function `associate':
zic.c: undefined reference to `pg_qsort'
zic.o(.text+0x2c54): In function `writezone':
zic.c: undefined reference to `pg_qsort'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[2]: *** [zic] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/nfs/home/e/u/postgresql/src/timezone'
gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/nfs/home/e/u/postgresql/src'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
Thanks !